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Rob Reddy: Bechet: Our Contemporary
by Glenn Astarita
Prominent New York City progressive saxophonist and composer, Rob Reddy contemporizes innovative soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet's artistic persona with his large ensemble, featuring several longtime associates, violinist Charles Burnham, bassist Dom Richards and drummer Pheeroan Aklaff. Reddy doesn't simply restate the past, but more importantly intertwines the trad jazz component with a scintillating and upbeat commingling ...
Rob Reddy: Bechet: Our Contemporary
by Troy Collins
With so much history to explore, tribute albums to jazz greats have become an established custom, regularly issued by artists of varying experience, from neophytes to masters. The most efficacious of these homages provide a fresh perspective on longstanding traditions, tracing the lineage of current concepts to past advances. A salient example of this phenomenon is ...
Ode to Jef Lee Johnson: The Promise of Lovolution
by Charles Blass
“When the music's happening, life is happening.... Why must we only join hands after the storm?... How true are you? Nothing else even matters." --Jef Lee JohnsonJef Lee Johnson, prolific, virtuosic, humble, was in some ways not made for this world. “I'm over the world," he sang. He was certainly made for music though.
Jef Lee Johnson: It's Been So Long Since I've Seen with My Eyes
by Phil DiPietro
[ Editor's Note: This 2002 article was republished in memory of Jef Lee Johnson who died at age 54 on January 28, 2013. ]Jef Lee Johnson is a true American original and a true American gift to the musical world. Guys like Jef are the embodiment of every reason to use the phrase, “He's ...
A Hundred Jumping Devils
By Rob Reddy
Label: Reddy Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: Hymn For The Insurrection; The Unnamable; Procession; A Hundred Jumping Devils; Mark Of Sincerity; O-Brasil; Gabriel's New Horn; Abraham; Solipsism; One (for Jef).
The Book of the Storm
By Rob Reddy
Label: Reddy Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: Spacious Skies/Faithless Bells; God Damn; Fool's March; Amongst The Ruins.
Rob Reddy's Gift Horse to Perform at NYC's Tribeca Performing Arts Center November 28th-29th
On Wednesday, November 28th and Thursday, November 29th at 8:00 p.m., Brooklyn- based saxophonist/composer Rob Reddy will return to the Tribeca Performing Arts Center to present the world premiere of a new book of music for his sextet, Rob Reddy's Gift Horse, commissioned by Chamber Music America. The group, which recorded last year's A Hundred Jumping ...
Rob Reddy's Small Town: The Book of the Storm
by Donald Elfman
This “Small Town --Reddy's large ensemble--has created a massive statement that shows just where jazz composition, new music, collective improvisation and individual expression meet. The leader, though a vital and engaging instrumentalist, envisioned this four-part suite as a situation where he would not play his saxophones. What took shape, instead, was a huge structure that revolved ...
Rob Reddy's Small Town: The Book of the Storm
by Nic Jones
This is a break with precedent for saxophonist and composer Reddy, as it's the first time he's recorded an extended composition for a large ensemble of which he's not a performing member. His role here is that of both composer and conductor, and he's fortunate indeed to have a group so clearly capable of making his ...
Rob Reddy's Small Town: The Book of the Storm
by Jerry D'Souza
Rob Reddy puts his saxophone aside to concentrate on composition for The Book of the Storm. Reddy has already shown that he has germane ideas and brings that facet into prominence once more. The idea for a large ensemble came to him in 2001. Reddy could not contain the ideas that went through his imagination in ...
